Hello,
I have a customer who wants to know whether or not there is a way to use an encrypted user password instead of plain text in odbc.ini or jdbc url on linux platform .
From the documentation it looks like it's possible for windows odbc clients but nothing about linux or jdbc..
Any idea?
Thanks
Chaima
Question
Encrypting user password in linux ODBC DSN and JDBC url
+2
The reason its not done, is that is just moves the problem elsewhere, and add complexity with no real benefit.
i.e. Where are they planning to store the password/key that they will use encrypt the password?
The right way is to change the permissions on the odbc.ini file to "r--" and just protect the user account with whatever password policy and rotation requirements they have.
+2Thank you @skeswani , they were also wondering if we provide a way to encrypt the password too. I guess the answer is no too, right?
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